Of Women
In the 21st Century
$32.47
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2018
Summary
A powerful, urgent and timely polemic - why women still need equality, and how we get there.
This book starts from the position that gender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights First and developing worlds; rich and poor women. Gender injustice impacts health, wealth, education, representation, opportunity and security everywhere. It is no exaggeration to describe the position of women as an apartheid, but it is not limited to one country or historical…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141985350 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141985356 |
| Author: | Shami Chakrabarti |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
A vital book on how we bring about gender equality
A vital book on how we bring about gender equality – Jeremy Corbyn
Thought-provoking … Chakrabarti draws in every chapter on stories from India or Kenya or Latin America as well as home … This book is likely to appeal to people who have frankly had enough of reading about the politics of waxing or the deeper meaning of Beyoncé, and who worry that western feminism is in danger of disappearing up itself in pursuit of rather glossy and superficial concerns, but still don’t for one minute think the battle is won … A welcome global perspective on gender injustice – Gaby Hinsliff * Guardian *
[A] crisp, contemporary treatise on the rights of women … punchy, passionate and fiercely rational … If just half of her ideas were put into practice, gender equality could be well within reach * New Internationalist *
A powerful polemic … An informative and impassioned primer * Huck Magazine *
About The Author
Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti is a leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner who has written and broadcast widely and held a number of public roles in recent decades. A legislator in the House of Lords, she is the author of On Liberty and Of Women. Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016, she was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2016 to 2020.
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